As the first presidential debate of the 2024 election year concluded, City Desk ABQ watched how politicians in New Mexico reacted. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich shared “Trump is not the one who got the price of insulin down for seniors.” U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury emphasized, “We need a leader in the White House, not a […]
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Roots of Edgewood
By Rick Holben, Photo Historian, East Mountain Historical Society July 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Edgewood, an area that covers nearly 57 square miles and boasts a population of about 6,000 people. These 57 square miles include portions of the historic homestead communities of Barton, Venus, Bachelor, Pine […]
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Edgewood Commission Approves Funding to Save Elementary Buildings
The Edgewood Commission voted unanimously during its June 24 meeting to reserve funds as part of its Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) to renovate the Edgewood Elementary south campus buildings. The former Edgewood Elementary School buildings, which were closed in 2013 due to a decline in enrollment, are at the center of an ongoing controversy […]
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Placitas Artist Goes on a Road Trip
The Art of Wandering is a visual road trip of an exhibition, taking the viewer through parts of New Mexico and Colorado that Placitan Joan Fenicle has been inspired to paint. Some of the paintings include locations that she visited many times over the 50 years she’s lived in New Mexico. Others highlight locations that […]
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Here come the ads! GOP reserves $2M in ABQ TV ads for election
New Mexico’s second congressional district is one of the most hotly contested races in the country, and Republicans are already spending big to reserve coveted local TV ad space. A memo from the National Republican Campaign Committee shared with Republican donors and posted online Thursday touts a $2,043,200 ad buy in the Albuquerque media market […]
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FACT FOCUS: Here’s a look at the false claims you might hear during tonight’s presidential debate
To hear former President Donald Trump tell it, the U.S. has fallen apart under President Joe Biden: the economy is failing, countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions across the southern border and crime has skyrocketed. Biden, on the other hand, has claimed he confronted an inflation rate of 9% and $5 gas prices when he took […]
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How the Biden-Trump debate could change the trajectory of the 2024 campaign
By ZEKE MILLER, MICHELLE L. PRICE, WILL WEISSERT, BILL BARROW and DARLENE SUPERVILLE President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, will meet for a debate on Thursday that offers an unparalleled opportunity for both candidates to try to reshape the political narrative. Biden, the Democratic incumbent, gets the chance to reassure voters that, at 81, he’s capable of […]
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Secretary of state blasts City Council proposal to lower threshold to win an election
New Mexico’s top election official this week criticized the Albuquerque City Council’s proposition to change the city’s majority rules for voting by lowering the threshold to win an election. At their June 17 meeting, city councilors voted 6-3 to remove the city’s majority voting rules and allow City Council and mayoral candidates with the highest […]
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Letter to the Editor: UNM Sandoval RMC Can and Should Do Better
This letter is submitted as reader commentary by the author. Have an opinion? Of course you do! Send it to editor@sandovalsignpost.com or learn more here. One of the reasons my husband and I moved to Sandoval County was because it was near a hospital. We have had many occasions to use UNM Sandoval Regional Medical […]
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Letter to the Editor: What is the Edgewood Commission Hiding?
Citizens of Edgewood, are you paying attention to the Edgewood Town Commission? The latest stunt they pulled was to have a “Special” Town Commission meeting on Wednesday, June 19, in Farmington, over 200 miles away from their regular meeting venue in the Edgewood Town Chambers. How much did this four-day junket of workshops and meetings […]